From our archives: Hedge fund pushes Wausau Paper to sell

9:26 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

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Editor's note: Story originally published in February 2012

MOSINEE -- As the week of June 20 began last year, Wausau Paper stock had tumbled from about $9 a share at the beginning of the year to less than $6 a share -- and two men from Manhattan showed up in central Wisconsin with a plan to do something about it.

The duo toured Wausau Paper's Mosinee and Brokaw paper mills as part of an unprecedented campaign to change the course of the company -- a campaign that in many ways illustrates the Wall Street-Main Street divide that has driven the Occupy movement. ...